CONTENTS. 



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H. W, Harkness, Biographical Notice and Portrait i 



Botanical Reminiscences: H. H. Behr 2 



Oregon's Imported Songsters: A. W. Anthony 6 



Plants Peculiar to Magdalena and Santa Margarita Islands: 



T. S. Brandegee II 



New Plants from Arizona, Utah and Nevada: Marcus E. Jones 12 



Cactacea; of the Cape Region of Baja California: T, S. Brandegee 18 



Strange Nesting Place of the Barn Owl: W, Otto Emerson 22 



Relationship of Bell's and Sage Sparrow: F. O. Johnson 22 



Naturalized Plants of Southern California, VIII; S. B. Parish 26 



Andrew Jackson Grayson: VVali^er E. Bryant 34 



Drymaria in Baja California: T, S. Brandegee 68 



A Miocene Shell in the Living State: J. J. Rivers 70 



A New Astragalus: T. S. Brandegee 72 



Use of Broken Pottery Among Indians: Edward Palmer 73 



Paullinia tortuosa: T. S. Brandegee 74 



Contributions to West American Botany: Katharine Biiandegee 75 



Notices of Some California Birds: L. Belding 97 



Influence of Pollen upon the Quality of Fruit: G, Eisen. loi 



Common Shrubs of Southwest Colorado: Alice Eastwood. . . ^ 102 



Unusual Nesting Place of Empidonax hammondi; J. G, Cooper 104 



List of Mosses Collected by T. S. Brandegee in the Yakima Region of 



Washington, 1882-3 107 



The Reciprocal Influence of Stock and Scion: Gustav Eisen 108 



The Fertilization of Geraniums: Alice Eastwood 112 



Notes on the Land Mammals of California: Walter E. Bryant 112 



Introduction of Blast ophaga psenes into California: Gustav EiseN 114 



Notes on California Plants: S. B. Parish 



L Tuberifcrous Roots of Hydrocotyle 116 



II, An Abnormal Phacelia 



III. Pseud o-Caudex of Car ex barbara 



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The Vegetation of '* Burns": T. S. Brandegee nS 



Nesting Habits of Thick-Billed Sparrows: H. R. Taylor 123 



Notes on Introduced Plants of Santa Clara: B. Frank Leeds 124 



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Notices of Certain Californian Birds: Walter E. Bryant 128 



Ferns of Tamalpais: Mary Elizabeth Parsons -. 129 



Notes on the Cactus Wren: A. W. Anthony , 133 



Edible Mollusks of Western North America: Henry Hemphill 134 



Chia: Edward Palmer 140 



** Reed Birds " oi the San Francisco Markets: Walter E. Bryant 142 



Field Notes on the Plants of Baja California: T. S. Brandegee 145 



Tiger Beetles of California: George W. Dunn 152 



